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    [–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    and you have a choice with Debian. You can run:

    • Stable if you want stability, meaning it doesn't change often (minor updates only).
    • Testing if you want newer packages that have at least gone through some level of testing. They've been in unstable for at least 3-10 days with no major bug reports.
    • Unstable/sid if you want to assist the Debian project by reporting bugs (which is always appreciated!), or want the "breaks all the time" experience of other distros.
    [–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Debian unstable doesn't break all the time, tho. There's only been a handful of times in my 27 years of using it that something got truly borked.

    (That's not counting times when two packages have the same file and there's a conflict. That's trivial to resolve once you've seen it a few times. Even that is relatively rare.)

    [–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 months ago

    Debian unstable doesn't break all the time, tho.

    Yeah, it was just a response to the Arch memes since I'm sure Arch doesn't break all the time either.